Brake checking as in flashing your brake lights on a tailgater? I had to do that this morning. I was on the left side lane, limit 60 km/h, I was doing indicated 68 with the cruise on and very slowly passing another car on the right side lane. This truck behind me was about a meter from my rear bumper trying to make me go out of the way.

Brake checking as in flashing your brake lights on a tailgater? I had to do that this morning. I was on the left side lane, limit 60 km/h, I was doing indicated 68 with the cruise on and very slowly passing another car on the right side lane. This truck behind me was about a meter from my rear bumper trying to make me go out of the way.

Why didn't you attempt to get off cruise and pass the other car more quickly?

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Why didn't you attempt to get off cruise and pass the other car more quickly?

Because I'm the one doing the limit and don't want to burn any more gas just to give way for someone who wants to speed. Also because the left lane is not an overtaking lane but an equal lane with the right one. I won't be on the left lane, though, if there's space for me on the right lane.

Why didn't you attempt to get off cruise and pass the other car more quickly?

...coz like all morons he was hogging the fast lane to pass at 0.000001mph faster than the guy in the slow lane, but couldn't wait to try before the much faster truck had passed him.
It's difficult enough for truck drivers out there trying to make deliveries in their restricted working hour days and all kinds of pesty cars cutting them and getting in front of them while under braking because there's a 'gap' to the nxt and so on. It's also difficult to speed up a truck after braking or going uphill and it's a tough job really to manouvre that large a vehicle constantly buffeted by crosswinds. But morons will not learn .... and they even have the gall to expect sympathy!

Brake checking as in flashing your brake lights on a tailgater? I had to do that this morning. I was on the left side lane, limit 60 km/h, I was doing indicated 68 with the cruise on and very slowly passing another car on the right side lane. This truck behind me was about a meter from my rear bumper trying to make me go out of the way.

Step 1: Cancel the cruise control, or just press the gas.
Step 2: Pass car in slow lane at a rate faster than .001 MPH
Step 3: Get in slow lane
Step 4: Allow truck behind you that wants to go faster to pass you

Stop being the left lane hog that only serves to create traffic. It's the idiots like you that do this sort of thing in an 18-wheeler and back traffic up for a mile. Can't say that I would highly recommend aggressive driving such as brake checking, either.

...coz like all morons he was hogging the fast lane to pass at 0.000001mph faster than the guy in the slow lane, but couldn't wait to try before the much faster truck had passed him.

They're not the fast lane or the slow lane. Two equal lanes with the same speed limit. And guess what, if you ask the police or check the law book, I was the one doing it right. OK, sure, my speed was about 2-3 km/h over the limit there. Also, I didn't "try" passing, I was already on the left lane with the right lane full of cars. There were cars in front of me but after passing the speed camera everyone in front of me started speeding. This guy in the truck behind me wanted to do the same, but as I was doing the limit and couldn't move over to the right lane, he was just pissed that I was "blocking the lane".

Here's a simple question: Why should I burn more expensive fuel and risk getting a ticket just because someone else wants to break the law?

Gotta love it how something someone did on the other side of the world gets people so worked up here.

They're not the fast lane or the slow lane. Two equal lanes with the same speed limit. And guess what, if you ask the police or check the law book, I was the one doing it right. OK, sure, my speed was about 2-3 km/h over the limit there. Also, I didn't "try" passing, I was already on the left lane with the right lane full of cars. There were cars in front of me but after passing the speed camera everyone in front of me started speeding. This guy in the truck behind me wanted to do the same, but as I was doing the limit and couldn't move over to the right lane, he was just pissed that I was "blocking the lane".

Here's a simple question: Why should I burn more expensive fuel and risk getting a ticket just because someone else wants to break the law?

Gotta love it how something someone did on the other side of the world gets people so worked up here.

Because I'm the one doing the limit and don't want to burn any more gas just to give way for someone who wants to speed. Also because the left lane is not an overtaking lane but an equal lane with the right one. I won't be on the left lane, though, if there's space for me on the right lane.

That might fly where you are from but if that was on my commute....GTFOOMY!

Really? 8km/h over the limit is as fast as you can handle going? That difference in speed in MPH would be unnoticed. The difference in fuel consumption if you speed up and let the dude pass will be absolutely insignificant.

Brake checking as in flashing your brake lights on a tailgater? I had to do that this morning. I was on the left side lane, limit 60 km/h, I was doing indicated 68 with the cruise on and very slowly passing another car on the right side lane. This truck behind me was about a meter from my rear bumper trying to make me go out of the way.

Because I'm the one doing the limit and don't want to burn any more gas just to give way for someone who wants to speed. Also because the left lane is not an overtaking lane but an equal lane with the right one. I won't be on the left lane, though, if there's space for me on the right lane.

you're an idiot.

unles you live in England, Africa and other various countries where the Left lane is the right lane the innermost lane is always the passing lane. doesn't matter what country it is. in England the same applies. so if you were driving in the left lane of a 4 lane roadway you were in the wrong.

They're not the fast lane or the slow lane. Two equal lanes with the same speed limit. And guess what, if you ask the police or check the law book, I was the one doing it right. OK, sure, my speed was about 2-3 km/h over the limit there. Also, I didn't "try" passing, I was already on the left lane with the right lane full of cars. There were cars in front of me but after passing the speed camera everyone in front of me started speeding. This guy in the truck behind me wanted to do the same, but as I was doing the limit and couldn't move over to the right lane, he was just pissed that I was "blocking the lane".

Here's a simple question: Why should I burn more expensive fuel and risk getting a ticket just because someone else wants to break the law?

Gotta love it how something someone did on the other side of the world gets people so worked up here.

Yes we get ,you are an azzhole. I guess Finland isn't immune to idiots as we hoped.

Here's a simple question: Why should I burn more expensive fuel and risk getting a ticket just because someone else wants to break the law?

Because you won't burn any noticeble more fuel for getting out of one's way. And if you are that paranoid about getting a ticket, slow down and get in the other lane.

Its called golden rule. If you were stuck behind someone in the lane going 10 under the limit, you would expect them to move out of your way. Do the same for other people. Blocking traffic just makes you a misanthrope.

That might fly where you are from but if that was on my commute....GTFOOMY!

Really? 8km/h over the limit is as fast as you can handle going? That difference in speed in MPH would be unnoticed. The difference in fuel consumption if you speed up and let the dude pass will be absolutely insignificant.

Obvious troll is obvious.

While I presonally would speed up and go around, it still doesn't give you the right to tailgate.

Gotta love it how something someone did on the other side of the world gets people so worked up here.

You are the morning commute ruiner. The one I desperately try to get around at the toll booth every morning. You are the one that gets on the turnpike thinking its ok to go 68 in the left lane. It's not ok, not even a little bit ok.

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